Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-28 | Page 43 | To Show Gains in Road Work

T0S13K II! flQ WORK Government Exhibit at the Utah State Fair Will Tell of Progress. Methods oi road maintenance will be an important part ot the uisplavs ol: the bureau of public load?. L nitod states department ot anculture, in tlie combined government exhibits ;t t;ie Ltan state lair, Iron: October o lo O'-tOl'er 11. ASjir-s demands place.! :i bia ?uw tnrlen upon the hiiiwav dZ the L iuted btates. !Not ouiv ar-i reat tleets of armv trucks still thunderio over the roads near milium- p.jsis :ijut cantenments, but mereaiup numbers vC commercial trucks and norye-uravru veiiicles are carrving; larm product to markets and are transporting liu'rchaij-dise liu'rchaij-dise ot everv fteseription xrom the ciry to the eountrv and troin one citv to au-other. au-other. All this means that to prevent the roads from becoming rutted, crumbled and shattered and at length mmas-able und.er tneir burueus. the rcatet attention atten-tion must be paid to their maintenance. The bureau ot public roads n the aencv that, vritn its other duut-s. administers ad-ministers the leueral aid road act. lieved to be the greatest !mhls to roadbuildnii!; in American historv. A great program ot luyhwav cunstruction, m ivluch the tedc-ral govern men t co- I ojier-ites with the states, is now under I - wav. il It iHsplavs will not onlv oemniit rat e i ir.aintenmiee. luit the tinted merliods or i providing drainage and iouiMai ions and i how to build earth, travel, sand-clay, i macadam. br:t:li and ci'in-rete road.